In the App Store we can find a large number of applications that allow us to listen and subscribe to our favorite podcasts. One of the oldest and with a greater number of options is Overcast. Behind Overcast lies Marco Arment, one of the most popular developers of the iOS platform and that he was also one of the creators of Instapaper.
Overcast has just received a new update, an update in which we can see how the Send to Watch function has completely disappeared from the application. This feature allowed Apple Watch owners to send their favorite episodes to the Apple wearable, so they could elisten to your favorite podcasts with a bluetooth headset while exercising without relying on the iPhone.
This feature, which was available since April, was implemented thanks to a feature available in watchOS 3, a feature that has stopped working in watchOS 4. On his blog, Marco says that there is an alternative but that it offers too many guarantees operating and He prefers to spend his time developing new user-requested features in both the iPhone and iPad versions.
This feature has never been as successful as Marco would have liked, as only 0,1% of users used it. The reason was none other than the long amount of time it took to transfer a podcast to the Apple Watch, which earned it a large number of negative reviews on the App Store. For now, the Apple Watch application will continue to allow users to control the playback of the iPhone application.
The independence of the Apple Watch over the iPhone has always been one of the objectives of the developers. The first step was taken by Apple by integrating a GPS in the Series 2 model, but it is not enough. The latest rumors that the future Series 3 could finally integrate an LTE chip that will allow it to function completely independently without having to be paired to an iPhone at all times for most functions.
